Sentence examples for serving a mission from inspiring English sources

"Sisters always had that little thought of serving a mission, but by the time 21 comes, you're married or on to something else," said Shoushig Tenguerian, 19, a student at Southern Virginia University, a private Mormon college near Lynchburg.

A flip through the team program finds plenty of references to Mormonism, whether it is players noting that the last book they read was the Book of Mormon or affirming their life goals as serving a mission and marrying.

Nearly 75 percent of the students are bilingual and about 30 percent speak a third language, most having lived abroad while serving a mission for the LDS Church.

And I've wanted to serve a mission since I was a young kid.

Now, most trusts have criteria and the land must serve a mission that is historical, aesthetic or ecological.

Once a squeaky-clean Mormon boy who aspired to serve a mission abroad, he had come home a smoker and drinker, unsure if he believed in God.

Ms. Smart, now 22 and preparing to serve a mission in Paris for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was not in court, though her father, Ed Smart, was.

He is an Eagle Scout and served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to Tokyo Japan from the age of 19-21 and speaks fluent Japanese.

In the same speech, Monson revealed the young women's age to serve a mission had also been lowered from 21 to 19.

He was raised as a Mormon and served a mission before coming out as gay, and had wondered what the two halves of himself would have said to each other if they had ever met.

In October 2012, the LDS Church announced at its general conference that young men could serve a mission after they turn 18 and have graduated from high school, rather than after age 19 under the old policy.